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Reductive Scavenging of Reactive Oxygen Species in Prokaryotes Rubrerythrin and Superoxide Reductase Reductive scavenging of reactive oxygen species in prokaryotes Rubrerythrin and Superoxide Reductase Ana Filipa Pinto H2O2 .- + O2 + 1e + 2H 2H2O + H2O2 + 2e + 2H Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biochemistry Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Oeiras, July, 2012 Oeiras, July, 2012 Reductive scavenging of reactive oxygen species in prokaryotes Ana Filipa Pinto Reductive scavenging of reactive oxygen species in prokaryotes Rubrerythrin and Superoxide Reductase Ana Filipa Carapinha Pinto Supervisors: Prof. Miguel S. Teixeira and Dr. Célia V. Romão Dissertation presented to obtain the PhD degree in Biochemistry Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica Universidade Nova de Lisboa Oeiras, June 2012 Apoio financeiro da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia e do Programa Operacional Potencial Humano do Fundo Social Europeu POPH/FSE no âmbito do Quadro Comunitário de apoio (Bolsa de Doutoramento SFRH/ BD/ 41355/ 2007) From left to right: Fernando Antunes, Cláudio Soares, Alessandro Giuffrè, Ana Filipa Pinto, João Vicente, Claudina Roudrigues-Pousada, Célia Romão and Miguel Teixeira Second Edition, July 2012 Cover: 3D crystal structures of Superoxide reductase from Ignicoccus hospitalis (left) and Desulforubrerythrin from Campylobacter jejuni (right). Metalloproteins and Bioenergetics Unit -Metalloenzymes and Molecular Bioenergetics Laboratory Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica Universidade Nova de Lisboa Av. da República Estação Agronómica Nacional 2780-157 Oeiras Portugal Tel. +351- 214 469 323 Foreword This dissertation is the result of research work for four years at the Metalloenzymes and Molecular Bioenergetics Laboratory integrated in the Metalloproteins and Bioenergetics Unit at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, under the supervision of Prof. Miguel Teixeira and Célia Romão. The work here described concerns the study of two systems involved in the scavenging of Reactive Oxygen Species widely distributed in Prokaryotes: Rubrerythrins and Superoxide Reductases. A rubrerythrin-like protein from Campylobacter jejuni, Desulforubrerythrin, was studied by biochemical, spectroscopic and structural methods and a NADH-linked H2O2 reductase activity was measured. Superoxide detoxification in Ignicoccus hospitalis was studied by characterizing a non-canonical superoxide reductase by biophysical and structural methods. This thesis is divided in four parts: Part I, organized in three chapters, comprising a general introduction to oxygen biochemistry (Chapter 1), to the two families of proteins concerning this thesis (Chapter 2) and to the pathogenic and hyperthermophilic organisms encoding for the proteins studied (Chapter 3). Part II concerns the experimental results obtained for desulforubrerythrin, a multidomain protein from Campylobacter jejuni, namely the biochemical and spectroscopic characterization of the protein (Chapter 4) and the analysis of its 3D crystal structure obtained by X-ray crystallography in two different redox states (Chapter 5). Part III (Chapters 6 and 7) focus on the study of a superoxide reductase enzyme from Ignicoccus hospitalis (wild-type and two site-directed mutants) and on the analysis of the 3D crystal structure obtained by X-ray crystallography. Finally this dissertation closes with a Part IV, a discussion chapter that integrates the results obtained. iii IV Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge the following people for being indispensable for the work presented here: Prof. Miguel Teixeira - My supervisor, for giving the opportunity to work in his lab and develop the work presented here, for the fruitful discussions and advices, for his knowledge and judgemental critics in every subject that definitely made my critical “eye” grow. Dra. Célia Romão - My co-supervisor who has been there in the more “poltergeisty” moments and helped me go through. For all the discussions and advices and for always pushing me forward. Dra. Diane Cabelli - For receiving me at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, for her essential collaboration on the pulse radiolysis studies on superoxide reductases, for the discussions and advices. Dra. Lígia Saraiva - For supervising and supporting all the molecular biology work on superoxide reductases, performed in her lab and for the helpful advices. Dr. Smilja Todorovic - For her resonance Raman studies on rubrerythrins and superoxide reductases and for many helpful discussions and advices throughout the work presented here. Prof. Peter Hilderbrandt - For his discussions and advices throughout the four years of research work presented here. Dr. João Rodrigues - For passing me on his heritage of the superoxide reductases, his knowledge and helpful advices. Dr. João Vicente - For being my “tutor” in the early stages of my research work in the lab still as a university student. For his patience, knowledge and valuable advices. Dr. Pedro Matias - For his strong collaboration in the X-ray structures determination of all the proteins involved in this thesis and also for the fruitful discussions as part of my thesis commission. V Dr. Tiago Bandeiras - For the work on the superoxide reductases crystallization and 3D structure determination. Prof. Fernando Antunes - For allowing me visit his lab (FCUL) in order to perform some assays on rubrerythrins activity and for helpful discussions as part of my thesis commission. Prof. Harald Huber - For providing us with genomic DNA of Nanoarchaeum equitans and Ignicoccus hospitalis. Metalloproteins and Bioenergetics Unit - For all the fun, knowledge, friendship, work discussions, gossip, not exactly in this order: the Metalloenzymes and Molecular Bioenergetics Laboratory Célia Romão, Sandra Santos, Liliana Pinto, Vera Gonçalves, Miguel Ribeiro, Cecília Miranda, Joana Carrilho and the Biological Energy Transduction Laboratory Manuela Pereira, Ana Paula Batista, Patrícia Refojo, Lara Paulo, Bruno Marreiros and Afonso Duarte. The previous members of this unit Andreia Veríssimo, Filipa Sousa, João Rodrigues, João Vicente and Fabrizio Testa. Molecular Genetics of Microbial Resistance Laboratory - For the availability and help on the molecular biology work on superoxide reductases and for the good environment in the lab. Family and Friends A special acknowledgement to my friends and family for all the support. FCT Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia is acknowledged for financial support to: PDTC/BiaPro/67263/2006 (MT), PDTC/BiaPro/67240/2006 (CVR) and PEst-OE/EQB/LA0004/2011; and for the PhD grant SFRH/BD/41355/2007. VI Thesis publications In this thesis a list of original publications is included: "Desulforubrerythrin from Campylobacter jejuni, a novel multidomain protein", Pinto AF, Todorovic S, Hildebrandt P, Yamazaki M, Amano F, Igimi S, Romão CV, Teixeira M. 2011 J Biol Inorg Chem.;16(3):501-10 “Thermofluor-based optimization strategy for the stabilization and crystallization of Campylobacter jejuni Desulforubrerythrin” Santos SP, Bandeiras TM, Pinto AF, Teixeira M, Romão CV. 2012 Protein Expr Purif.;81(2):193-200 "Reductive elimination of superoxide: Structure and mechanism of superoxide reductases", Pinto AF, Rodrigues JV, Teixeira M, 2010 Biochim Biophys Acta.; 1804(2):285-97 "Cloning, purification, crystallization and X-ray crystallographic analysis of Ignicoccus hospitalis neelaredoxin", Pinho FG, Romão CV, Pinto AF, Saraiva LM, Huber H, Matias PM, Teixeira M, Bandeiras TM. 2010 Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun.;66 (Pt 5):605-7 “Superoxide reductase from Nanoarchaeum equitans: expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis”, Pinho FG, Pinto AF, Pinto LC, Huber H, Romão CV, Teixeira M, Matias PM, Bandeiras TM. 2011 Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun.;67(Pt 5):591-5 Three manuscripts are in preparation, based on studies presented in Chapters 5, 6 and 7: “Three dimensional structure of the multidomain desulforubrerythrin from Campylobacter jejuni”, Pinto AF, Matias P, Carrondo MA, Teixeira M., Romão CV, manuscript under preparation VII “Superoxide reduction in the crenarchaeon Ignicoccus hospitalis” Pinto AF, Romão CV, Pinto LC, Huber H, Saraiva LM, Cabelli D, Teixeira M, manuscript under preparation “Insights on the superoxide reductase structures from the two symbiotic organism: Ignicoccus hospitalis and Nanoarchaeum equitans reveal differences on the catalytic site”, Romão CV, Pinto AF, Pinho FG, Barradas AR, Matias PM, Teixeira M, Bandeiras T, manuscript under preparation. VIII Summary The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of systems involved in the scavenging of reactive oxygen species. The work focuses on an enzyme from the Rubrerythrin family that reduces hydrogen peroxide and one from the Superoxide Reductase family that reduces the superoxide anion. Both of these families are distributed widely across the three domains of life, Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya, but are mainly found in anaerobic and microaerophilic prokaryotes. The target enzymes were a new multidomain rubrerythrin-like protein from the pathogenic bacterium Campylobacter jejuni, and a superoxide reductase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Ignicoccus hospitalis. The objectives were to further understand these enzymes by establishing the nature and properties of their metal/catalytic centers and elucidate the reduction mechanisms of these two proteins at the molecular level, by biophysical methods and through the determination of their 3D structures
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